DOJ sues UnitedHealth over $1B+ in Medicare claims
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Justice Department sued Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group Tuesday, alleging the payer defrauded
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Month: May 2017
‘Save Copper Basin Medical Center!!’: Rural hospital seeks to raise $100,000 on GoFundMe
(By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review) n the past 10 days, a rural critical access hospital in Copperhill, Tenn.,
Read MoreThe Senate’s Bipartisan Chronic Care Working Group
On Tuesday at a Senate Finance Committee meeting, a doctor, health plan administrator, and hospital system administrators testified “expanding telemedicine
Read MoreNew Medicare ID Cards Coming in 2019
By April 2019, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will issue new Medicare ID cards to the approximately 60 million
Read MoreTrump Refusal to ‘Bail Out’ Insurers Might End Up Making Policies Cheaper
(By Alison Kodjak for NPR) President Trump has been saying in recent weeks that the Affordable Care act, or Obamacare,
Read MoreDrug Rebates for Medicare?
The White House budget director Mick Mulvaney speaking at a conference at Stanford University said that his office has brought
Read MoreHealthcare execs expect value-based care to disrupt industry more than science in decade ahead
(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) C-level executives and investors from across the healthcare industry rank pricing and reimbursement
Read MorePhysicians and Payers Requesting Expansion of MACRA
In a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, ten organizations that represent both physicians and payers,
Read MoreOverwrought Marketing? Ads, Not Research, Create Some Pharma Best-Sellers
(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) An overhead light drawing attention to his face, actor Danny Glover starts to
Read MoreBipartisan bill will be reintroduced to force pharma to justify price hikes
(By Ed Silverman for STAT) A bipartisan group of lawmakers will re-introduce a bill on Tuesday that would require drug
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